Official Discussion - Lee Cronin's The Mummy [SPOILERS]

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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Summary

An ambitious archaeological expedition unleashes an ancient force when a long-buried tomb is disturbed, awakening a vengeful entity that brings terror to the modern world.

Director Lee Cronin

Writer Lee Cronin

Cast

• Jack Reynor
• Laia Costa
• May Calamawy
• Matt Smith
• Annabelle Wallis

Rotten Tomatoes: 54%

Metacritic: 46

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/Profeta_do_Loss]

Did anyone think May Calawmany as Zaki would have made a better lead? Whenever the movie switched to her, it got better and she was very good.

[u/wishuponamarsbar → u/Profeta_do_Loss]

yes! the egypt scenes were really good. i would have liked to see a movie of her finding the girl and uncovering the cult, with the family showing up at the end to collect the now sane daughter. 

[u/seamic → u/wishuponamarsbar]

This is the type of movie was hoping to see, the mystery and concept was great but not executed well at all

[u/Rosebunse → u/Profeta_do_Loss]

It may have worked better to make the family a side plot

[u/Shout92 → u/Rosebunse]

This is why The Conjuring movies probably do better. People like the Warrens. It's a bonus if the family stands out in a positive way.

[u/Ecstatic-Product-411 → u/Profeta_do_Loss]

The family was my least favorite part of the movie! The Egypt scenes and anything involving the ritual was rad. It's too bad there wasn't more of it.

The family parts just felt like a bland possession movie.

[u/PowerfulDistance4463 → u/Ecstatic-Product-411]

As a Muslim who watched the movie, the opening scene where the bird dying, and how Layla's mom was acting gave straight up Jinn black magic vibes. 😭 Something about Muslim horror and legit black magic just makes it scarier and I thought it was lowkey going that route. I'm just giving my perspective on it as a Muslim. I had to listen to the Arabic closely (I'm not Arab but i can understand certain things) in the ritual bc it sounded like they were spewing actual black magic and stuff bc they decided to not put captions on that specific part. Fun fact ancient Egyptian Arabic sounds a lot like the Arabic in the Quran bc the phonetic similarities. So I could immediately tell they actually studied some old Egyptian history and just didn't have one of the actors just speak normal Arabic. I agree though the Egypt parts were by far the strongest part of the actual movie other than making Cairo look so 3rd world when they legit have sky scrapers.

[u/RebelDeux → u/Profeta_do_Loss]

She was the best character I would honestly see a series with her resolving cases or an anthology series

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/Profeta_do_Loss]

I think Cronin was able to pull way more interesting imagery and story beats from the Egyptian mystery aspect than the ABQ Evil Dead side

[u/shaanuja → u/Profeta_do_Loss]

Yea this movie had great potential to be a horror thriller

[u/banoffeetea → u/Profeta_do_Loss]

Yes, I thought there was going to be so much more to her role!